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Another rugged individualist has enlisted in the U.S. defense program-which needs more of them. Frank Pembroke ("Huck") Huckins is a blunt Boston Yankee with confidence to burn. Last year he told the Navy he could make a motor torpedo boat which wouldn't pound the teeth out of its crew. To most old salts, this sounded fantastic. But since Huckins was willing to spend his own money on the boat-if the Navy would just supply the engines-the Navy turned him loose...
Spry, roundheaded Frank Huckins likes to show up at his office at noon, work until late at night. In his social life, as at work, he is a bristling individualist. He has outraged Jacksonville hostesses by taking his own brand of Scotch to cocktail parties, refusing to attend dinners unless the menu suited him. A hater of games, he goes to sleep on any handy sofa if someone suggests a round of bridge...
Despite his perfunctory tribute to electricity, Pierre Mercadier did not really have confidence in progress or even in social stability. He was an egoist, individualist, amoralist-a sort of living symptom of creeping social sickness. He had a sizable fortune from his father, but taught history in the provinces to make a little extra. Pierre himself gambled in the stockmarket, but he was no wizard. He lost money...
Hastings William Sackville Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford, follows the great tradition of the noble British individualist. A tall, cadaverous man of 52, dressed in blue serge and a green "ratcatcher" cap given him by his mother, he broods over the mating habits of spiders, has written a book on Parrots and Parrotlike Birds in Aviculture. Last week he published a new work, an anti-war pamphlet called What a Game! It put him back in the hot water he has stewed in for most of World...
From the beginning of his career, Brandeis' words and actions unceasingly carried out the policy of social direction that he helped to make famous. He was an individualist in his actions without adhering to laissez-faire; he was a collectivist in his program without adhering to the bureaucratic state. He had an abundant faith in human goodness and a tolerant distrust of human frailties. The strength of this precarious balance of thought lay in its being made up of a belief in the value of reason, an immense ethical fervor, a concrete and massive knowledge, and a firm insistence...